bishopric

A diocese: a region in which a bishop of a church governs.

Later that year, he was appointed to the bishopric of Lindesmeere.

Iohn Fiſher Biſhop of Rocheſter, when the King [Henry VII of England] would have tranſlated him from that poore Biſhopricke to a better, he refuſed, saying: He would not forſake his poore little olde wife, with whom he had ſo long lived.

The office or function of a bishop.

Near-synonyms: episcopacy, episcopate, monepiscopacy